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Beacon vs Planoly

Planoly may suit a creator who wants to see how photos and videos look together before posting.

Beacon may suit a team that wants to keep its notes, reviews, and posts for many services together.

See Beacon’s 16 AI tools, SDK, and API

The work, side by side

See what happens from planning to posting.

Open the links to check each tool’s features. Some features need a paid plan.

Plan and schedule posts

Beacon

Save ideas and notes, write a version for each platform, and pick when each post goes live.

How Beacon prepares posts

Planoly

Plan posts on a calendar. For some formats, Planoly reminds you to finish posting in the social app.

Planoly product overview

More than scheduling

Beacon

Beacon helps you write from the notes you choose, so your draft starts with your own material.

How Beacon uses your ideas

Planoly

Planoly shows how your feed will look and offers post ideas and a link page for your bio.

Planoly product overview

Review before posting

Beacon

Your team can comment on a post and approve it before it goes live.

How Beacon reviews work

Planoly

On paid plans, teammates can leave comments on posts and media.

Planoly Teamwork guide

Check the result

Beacon

See which posts went live, open a live post when a link is available, and find out what to do if a post fails.

How Beacon shows post results

Planoly

Planoly shows how many people saw or reacted to supported posts, plus follower growth.

Planoly analytics guide

BEACON CONNECTIONS

Use Beacon with the tools you already know.

Ask an AI assistant to help with posts, add publishing to your app, or connect an automation builder. Beacon keeps your access and approval rules in place.

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Tools for your AI assistant

Connect Codex, Claude, or another compatible assistant through Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard link for AI tools. It can check posts, make drafts, find media, and schedule posts. This is available on every Beacon plan, including Free.

See all 16 tools
SDK

Build with TypeScript

Beacon’s TypeScript SDK gives developers ready-made code for posts, schedules, media, and AI drafts.

Read the TypeScript SDK guide
API

Connect your automations

Use the request steps in n8n, Activepieces, or Zapier to call Beacon’s Agent API. Check, schedule, and manage posts with the access you grant.

Read the Agent API guide

Before you choose

Try one real post from start to finish.

Check whether Planoly can post each format for you or sends a phone reminder.